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One Leg Up With JayMac Customs, The Man Behind the Mets 'OMG' Sign Ahead of NLCS Game 3 at Citifield! 10-16-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, this week, in the latter half of
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  Speaker 2: the week, it's gonna be the Mets turn to have
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  Speaker 2: the Late Championship Series in New York City. I am
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  Speaker 2: just over the moon that both teams are in the LCS.
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  Speaker 2: Over the moon. The baseball is alive and well in
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  Speaker 2: New York. All right, But to represent the back half
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  Speaker 2: of the week, I have J. Matt Customs on my line.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Jerome, we've been talking about this for a while.
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  Speaker 2: The mister oh my god, signed man is on my line.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, sir.
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  Speaker 3: It's good to see. It's finally good to get some
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  Speaker 3: time together. And what better time than coming off of
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  Speaker 3: a fresh win to kind of like recap you know
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  Speaker 3: what it's been like the last couple of days in LA.
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  Speaker 3: But there's been a lot since we've kind of talked last.
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  Speaker 2: So I missed the punchline. We're actually reporting to me
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  Speaker 2: from the airport right after the game in LA. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, you're just a guy from Queens who made
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  Speaker 2: this sign. And sure you made it, you didn't think
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  Speaker 2: you'd be in the LCS carrying it around La, am
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  Speaker 2: I right?
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  Speaker 3: No, for sure, I mean I'm you know, born and
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  Speaker 3: raised in Queens Living. I live in Jersey right now,
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  Speaker 3: but not right now. That's that's where where our home is,
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  Speaker 3: but close enough where it doesn't take me too long
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  Speaker 3: to get to the park. But it's it's been an
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  Speaker 3: absolute amazing time and it's funny. I think I think
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  Speaker 3: somebody had envisioned this, and I think that I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to give it the credit to of the man himself,
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  Speaker 3: Steve Cohen. He and I had a conversation after the
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  Speaker 3: the second MG sign was delivered in July to the
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  Speaker 3: Mets in Pittsburgh. He had a conversation with me and said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: how's this making you feel? And you know, I told
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  Speaker 3: him what it meant, you know how I how I
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  Speaker 3: felt about it, and uh, you know, as a fan
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  Speaker 3: to have like this experience of like, you know, players
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  Speaker 3: holding it up and you know, having people text me
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  Speaker 3: and send me pictures of it. It's still like to
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  Speaker 3: this day, like people always like will send me like
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  Speaker 3: a snapshot, Hey, your sign was in the dugout being
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  Speaker 3: held there through this home run or this.
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  Speaker 2: Home run, because you know, do you watch every picture?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I watch. I watched pretty much every pitch. I mean
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  Speaker 3: as much as I can. It's very rare that I'm
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  Speaker 3: not front of a television watching a game, more in
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  Speaker 3: person at a game. If I could, you know, if
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  Speaker 3: I could attend, well.
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  Speaker 2: Let's all the sign to get to the dugout. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they don't just get there by himself. You personally delivered it,
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  Speaker 2: right am, I right on that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I personally delivered it. But you know, the second
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  Speaker 3: time that I delivered it was a little bit different
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  Speaker 3: than the first. So the first time it was I
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  Speaker 3: was given it to uh to to Alex Cohen at
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  Speaker 3: the at the cake corner. I made it that morning,
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  Speaker 3: brought two signs with me.
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  Speaker 4: She saw me. She saw me in the cake corner.
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  Speaker 3: I was taking a selfie with mister and missus Matt
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  Speaker 3: and uh She's like, wow, what a beautiful sign.
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  Speaker 4: What do you plan on doing with that?
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I want to bring one into the stadium
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  Speaker 3: for myself and the other one for the team.
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  Speaker 4: Can you help me?
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  Speaker 3: And you know, she said, yeah, but I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to give it to them unless you sign the back
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  Speaker 3: because I want them to know that it's coming from
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  Speaker 3: I'm a fan and not you know, someone who we
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  Speaker 3: hired to give it to them because I think it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of cool that, you know, a fan did that.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, and you know, she she she.
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  Speaker 3: Had it brought to h to the clubhouse and it
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  Speaker 3: got to the team.
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  Speaker 4: Jose wasn't in the clubhouse at the time it happened.
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  Speaker 3: He was getting treatment, and it made its way to
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  Speaker 3: the dugout and I got a message from a friend
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  Speaker 3: on you know, I'm the third inning. My friend James
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  Speaker 3: hit me up and said, hey, Jerome, like, dude, your
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  Speaker 3: signs of the dugout, Like, let me send you a picture.
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  Speaker 3: He sends me a picture. Tyrone Taylor goes yard. Now
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  Speaker 3: they're holding it up, Peter Lonza go yard, they're holding
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  Speaker 3: it up.
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  Speaker 2: And then the picture, you know, starting picture goes seven
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  Speaker 2: innings are holding it up.
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  Speaker 3: After that, it's just really yeah, it's just become this
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  Speaker 3: like this thing. But you know, going back to what
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  Speaker 3: I was saying about Steve Cohen, he had he had
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  Speaker 3: envisioned it. He's like, you know, how would you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: think about how you feel right now. Imagine how you
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  Speaker 3: feel if this team goes was on a deep run
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  Speaker 3: and you know they're in the playoffs and and they're
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  Speaker 3: fighting for their their playoff lives and you know that's
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  Speaker 3: three months from now, so you know what exactly he had,
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  Speaker 3: you know, thought could potentially happen. I mean we all
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  Speaker 3: kind of think that kind of pie in the sky,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, the writing was on the wall. I
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  Speaker 3: had asked them that they, you know, are we going
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  Speaker 3: to add some some players. I mean, that's probably the
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  Speaker 3: biggest question that anybody wants to know the deadline. And
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  Speaker 3: he's like, we just added philm Maiton and I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, obviously we we did a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more after that, obviously with you know, Brazilbah and uh
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  Speaker 3: and Winker and Static.
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  Speaker 4: You know that there's just so many winkers change.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you about meeting the guy who's song
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  Speaker 2: is obviously as the inspiration for this me I Glaciers
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  Speaker 2: for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: What was that like, I mean we had some non
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  Speaker 3: verbal communication the night of OMG when he was doing
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  Speaker 3: the concert. Like I'll never forget being brought down to
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  Speaker 3: the dugout by Justin Manning, the the on field host
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  Speaker 3: MC saw me standing on the top of one fourteen
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  Speaker 3: trying to make my way down. They wouldn't let me
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  Speaker 3: down because no one had any idea, what what, what,
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  Speaker 3: Whatever's about?
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  Speaker 4: And I only had a standing room ticket that night.
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  Speaker 4: So he's like, follow me. I'm gonna take you down.
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  Speaker 3: So he brings me down, stiffs me down behind a
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  Speaker 3: dugout who wrote behind a dugout?
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  Speaker 4: Mind you?
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  Speaker 3: And uh the game ends. Jose performs and I'm just
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  Speaker 3: standing there in Aucust this this really cool firework show.
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  Speaker 3: But before that everything blacks out. He thinks, oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: no one expected that he was going to have a concert.
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  Speaker 3: But then the team rushes him with you, oh my
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  Speaker 3: god sign and then a few different people point to
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  Speaker 3: him and point to me, and I raised my hand,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, we have this like like non verbal
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  Speaker 3: like you know, you tap your heart and you know
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  Speaker 3: you thank somebody. Relationship started there. And then a week later,
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  Speaker 3: when I was delivering a sign to the Brooklyn Cyclones,
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  Speaker 3: sign that cracked the sign that I brought and cracked
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  Speaker 3: and the fell out of my hand and off I
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  Speaker 3: was just like going through this hollow ground in Coney
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  Speaker 3: Island where a lot of our players have come from,
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  Speaker 3: and the sign breaks. I go to the car, I
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  Speaker 3: fix it, build it delivered to the team around the
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  Speaker 3: seventh inning of the game. I got a text message Yo, Twitter,
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  Speaker 3: there a picture of your sign, and I stay on
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  Speaker 3: it and had this orange tape on it. The O
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  Speaker 3: popped off of the sign and immediately I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I need to figure out when I can get into
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  Speaker 3: the shop. I wasn't going to go to the shop
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  Speaker 3: on July fourth, so I was in there on Friday
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  Speaker 3: making a new sign.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is your own shop or tell us about
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  Speaker 2: your studio? And has the studio business obviously increased since
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  Speaker 2: all of this kicked up?
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  Speaker 3: No, it has. You know, I work out of a
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  Speaker 3: space that's like a cooperave like it's it's it's a
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  Speaker 3: makerspace in New Jersey, and you know, if you have
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  Speaker 3: an idea like you basically pay a membership.
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  Speaker 4: To use the space.
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  Speaker 3: You can use all the tools and everything else that
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  Speaker 3: they do. I've been going there for about four years,
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  Speaker 3: and I pay a business rates, so that means I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to be there more. I'm going to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: pay a little bit more so I can bring some
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  Speaker 3: folks with me to help out. Whereas other folks that
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  Speaker 3: use it, you know, are using it a lot more casually,
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  Speaker 3: and I have. I've pretty much used it to run
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  Speaker 3: all of my fabrication, and I've been doing that for
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  Speaker 3: the better part of the last like four years now,
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  Speaker 3: but those production has been crazy.
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  Speaker 2: No, you know, I was going to say, are people
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  Speaker 2: people are buying the signs? Also? Right for the team?
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  Speaker 2: People are literally investing in these signs now, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Now people are they? You know they? You know,
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  Speaker 3: ever since, like you know, I did a couple of
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  Speaker 3: I did a couple of news features, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting some publicity recently with NBC and CBS and
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of different places that have just recognized
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  Speaker 3: the fact that this was brought to the team. This
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  Speaker 3: in turn increased you know, people's desire to want to
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  Speaker 3: have it, because if it was just a regular season thing,
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  Speaker 3: I think it would have ended on September thirtieth, the
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  Speaker 3: last game, and you know, everything would have just kind
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  Speaker 3: of gone could put.
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  Speaker 4: But now it's like people.
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  Speaker 3: Are looking at it as a collectors on it because
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  Speaker 3: we don't go to playoff games very often. We were
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  Speaker 3: not in the playoffs. We've been in the playoffs eleven
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  Speaker 3: times in sixty two years. That's not a huge level
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  Speaker 3: of success from from from that standpoint, and now people
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  Speaker 3: are comparing this season to other seasons and what it
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  Speaker 3: means to people. I mean, I remember, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: ninety nine season, it was a wild card season and
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  Speaker 3: we got in.
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  Speaker 4: It was such an age. Remember the day before incredible time,
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  Speaker 4: the day.
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  Speaker 2: Before the playing game of that year that would you know,
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  Speaker 2: no hit basically one one hit shutout. The day before
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  Speaker 2: I'm at Chase Stadium watching Piazza at the play. It's
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  Speaker 2: a wild pitch and the meant to beat the pirates
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  Speaker 2: to get in. That whole run was something else. And
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  Speaker 2: then of course the grand single. So yeah, well Craves
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  Speaker 2: my little heart you know from the childhood, was healed
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  Speaker 2: because I remember the bird used to be the break.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they used to break hearts all over the
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  Speaker 2: city back then. But five years later and you were
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  Speaker 2: there to watch Lindor hit that homer, and I have
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  Speaker 2: to say that day, I'm sure you've got the sign
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  Speaker 2: with some kind of magic, some guy of luck going
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  Speaker 2: into Truist Park, right, I mean, to get that homer
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  Speaker 2: the way he did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I mean there's just been there's been so
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  Speaker 3: many different moments throughout the course of the season that
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  Speaker 3: I just like made me feel like, wow, there's just
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  Speaker 3: something magical happening with the team. Winkers walk off, I
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  Speaker 3: was at one of the Antosis walk offs. I was,
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  Speaker 3: I was. I wasn't at the Ali walk off that week.
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  Speaker 3: It was from one game I think that I missed
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  Speaker 3: that week. But funny enough, when I was in pitch
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  Speaker 3: Burg and brought the first MG sign Edwin Diaz blew
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  Speaker 3: that save. It I think it was might have been
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: a four out safe but or a six out save,
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  Speaker 3: but it wasn't a safe because he blew the save.
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  Speaker 3: And then we won the game of extras on Lindor's
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  Speaker 3: base hit and.
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  Speaker 4: We won that game.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was two to one, and the history
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  Speaker 3: repeated itself, but instead of a single or a double,
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  Speaker 3: he hits this monster to run home run to give
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  Speaker 3: us the lead after we had given it up. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: it was on a d has blown save and then
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  Speaker 3: d As mopped up his his his his blown save.
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  Speaker 3: So really really like wild you know, stuff happening with
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  Speaker 3: this team, like being.
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  Speaker 4: At the Milwaukee game and and.
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  Speaker 2: You were there hold the sign after the Alonzo at
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  Speaker 2: that and by the way, best walk year hit I've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen of any postseason regular season I mean that guy, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think he wants to me in New York a
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  Speaker 2: little longer.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think, Listen, I think he does too.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's you know, time is going to tell
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  Speaker 3: with you know what, what what it looks like in
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  Speaker 3: his in his you know, free agency campaign, there's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a lot of teams they're gonna be buying for
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  Speaker 3: his services because as clutch as he maybe hadn't been
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  Speaker 3: all season, you know, I think he's had a share
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  Speaker 3: of struggles at the plate this year, you know, especially
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  Speaker 3: with some of the off speed stuff. You know, Pete's
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  Speaker 3: shown up when it mattered, you know, the most important
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  Speaker 3: at that were the Mets of the season. He delivers
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  Speaker 3: a keynote three run home run opposite is the opposite
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  Speaker 3: field of that, which is the biggest three home run
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  Speaker 3: of his career and probably one of the biggest home
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  Speaker 3: runs in the Mets postseason history. Yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done with the j mac customs. And Jay, I
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  Speaker 2: got to say, you mentioned Steve Cohen, and you and
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  Speaker 2: I are We've seen a lot of mens years for years,
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  Speaker 2: and look, I was friends with the will Ponds and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to bash him here, but I will
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  Speaker 2: say Collins brought a new spirit to allow things like
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing and what the song is done, which
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  Speaker 2: we might have seen in the prior regime, if you will.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's and that's I think I think it's
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  Speaker 3: a fair and acumate accurate statement.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I every time that you know, I've run across both
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  Speaker 3: Steve and Alex, they've always been super accommodated with fans.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I felt like a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 3: That that you know, Jeff Bread he kind of like
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  Speaker 3: in their ivory tower and to keep themselves isolated from
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  Speaker 3: interacting with fans. And you know, I think that Stephen
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  Speaker 3: Alex have used the voice of the fans to to
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  Speaker 3: kind of figure out like what is the pulse of
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  Speaker 3: the team. And not that you're always going to react
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  Speaker 3: to what fans say, but you know, when you're when
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  Speaker 3: you're holding roundtable discussions to talk about the future of
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  Speaker 3: what what's happening around the ball play, when you're looking at,
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  Speaker 3: you know, taking feedback from from season ticke beholders about
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  Speaker 3: you know, what their amenities alike, what is the regular
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: film he can't afford streetent sickets look like, so like
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: things like the Mets connected, all of that are born
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  Speaker 3: out of feedback that they're getting from people. But you
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  Speaker 3: don't get feedback if you're not asking for it. And
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  Speaker 3: if you're not.
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  Speaker 2: The lot program. You're right, that's new. And I got
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  Speaker 2: to say, Steve Cohen, you wouldn't see the will pounds
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  Speaker 2: out in the middle of the plaza like that before
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  Speaker 2: a postseason game. Okay, it just it just wouldn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: So I see what you're saying. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: I mean being knowing mister Steinberner for about ten years
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  Speaker 2: of his life the last eighties was life and knowing
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  Speaker 2: the breast seat. I feel like Cohen's brought that energy
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  Speaker 2: up hands on ownership and the Mets needed that badly,
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  Speaker 2: didn't they.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, you know when you when you think about
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  Speaker 3: too like he recently has committed himself.
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  Speaker 4: Supporting the operations of.
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  Speaker 3: The team and that he's not going to be trading
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  Speaker 3: and he's going to be focusing his efforts on what's
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  Speaker 3: happening with the best because not that he's the general manager,
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  Speaker 3: but sometimes you need to be available and accessible for
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  Speaker 3: when there's a late night decision that has to be made,
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  Speaker 3: and you got to remove some of some of the
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  Speaker 3: interference and he's you know, just even like this last
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  Speaker 3: like say thirty almost like thirty days that I've been
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  Speaker 3: watching the games on the road, being he's at the
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  Speaker 3: ballpark early, he's watching badly practice. When he gets off,
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  Speaker 3: he's heading off the field, he's taking time to take
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  Speaker 3: pictures of fans, signing autographs for fans, doing things with
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  Speaker 3: the fans that.
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  Speaker 4: You've just never seen. I mean, you know, he brings
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  Speaker 4: him and Alex.
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  Speaker 3: Both enjoy to so many people because people are happy
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  Speaker 3: to thank them for what we're getting. Like there was
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  Speaker 3: a five year plan, and the five year plan is
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  Speaker 3: really showing up, and they.
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  Speaker 2: Made the playoffs, and they made the postseason at one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and one wins, and I thought, man, this Colin
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  Speaker 2: aar is starting off really well. Remember we all remember that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, But.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta ask you, Jay, you know you talk about
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  Speaker 2: your accessibility. I find that throughout the game you're just
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  Speaker 2: seen on TV the big boards, but you're out there
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  Speaker 2: with the fans. You're not in that ivory tower. So
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  Speaker 2: what's it mean to you to be sort of less
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  Speaker 2: influencer but also accessible to the fan base to be around.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah and listen, I've.
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  Speaker 3: I find it really important to to not separate myself
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  Speaker 3: from everyone else because I am a fan like everyone else.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to be isolated.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Is it nice to be be uh invited to hang
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  Speaker 3: out in the suite? Absolutely? But you know what I
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: also realized too that it's also important to you know,
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  Speaker 3: high five and and harry a sign around and and
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  Speaker 3: pump people up and you know, shake hands and you know,
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  Speaker 3: kiss babies, fist bumps all that stuff. Like it's I
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  Speaker 3: love it because it's not just you know, it's not
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: just for the players.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: It's for the fans like there are they're a fans
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: who are young. They're a fans who are you.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Know, kids love it right, you know, people our age
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: are are you know, are into it. But what I
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: get a real kick out on is like when some
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: of our old timers, like the real OG fans and
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: people who've been that it's like the sixties and the
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: seventies and and they're bought in, like Pinman and kalbel Man,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: like I see them both like reaching out, like Pinman
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: reached out and said, hey, I want to sign for
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: one of my buddies. I want to sign for myself,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: And kalabell Man like he's like, I want to get
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: some of your pins, and you know, they're just it's
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: so cool to me because like I've watched these guys
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: growing up, and I've seen them when they were, you know,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: maybe my age, and for them to be, you know,
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: at their stage in life and still have the passion
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: and the zeal that that that I have now is
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: pretty special.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, let me tell you this. You are
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: the new iteration of the sign Man because your remember,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: I feel line there was the guy holding the sign
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: almost ever game different monikers. You're this generation sign Man.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: I don't even know that or that, but I just
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: feel that way.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Oh listen, man, it's it's it's it's kind of cool
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: to be mentioned in the same brother as him.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: But our sign Man is still here.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: I think he's in section three thirty seven and he's
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: still doing his thing, and he's got over twenty thirty signs.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: You might have been featured recently and like am New
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: York Sports. He and I have talked on Twitter and
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: you know, he was congratulating me for that. But you know,
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I have a lot of respect for anybody who's doing
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: something creative to highlight what's happening with our team. There's
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: so many different people in the arena. You know, when
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: you think about you know a fan who really struck
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: it big, right, I think about the seven Line and
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: what they've done to you know, take a talent with
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: with creating T shirts and quirky T shirts and turned
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: it into a an amazing marketing kind of tool for
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: for his own business. And it also rallies people up,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: like you know between tailgates and you know seeing However,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: in these stadiums that they've seen so.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Much, they do five ks too. They're very dynamic group.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, there there there's awesome, but there's there's a
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: lot of other fans in the community that are doing
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: similar stuff. There's there's this this group of hat makers
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: called the City Boys. I'm actually wearing one of their hats. Now.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: This is a this hat here is designed after the
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Johann Santana No hitter by a guy named Brooklyn Bodies.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: So this is like the black jersey with the piping
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: on it. And this is this kind of stuff you
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: don't see all the time. So they're inspired by you know,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: what they see and you know what they can feel
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: in touch.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: And there's a lot.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: There's a lot more content creators and and you know,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: creative folks in the community doing some really cool things too.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, one hundred percent. All right, I want to ask
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: you about a couple of things at twenty two and
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: thirty three. We all know what happened the closer meeting.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Why getting enough coverage? I feel like the sign and
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: actually the twenty two and thirty three are for some
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: reason not as popular. The sign's popular. But why did
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: the haktua and and Grimm's take off? Why didn't the
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: sign and and and the twenty two and thirty three?
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Why aren't those the talking points? Those should be the
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: talking points, because that's the good.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Luck, right, you know the twenty two and thirty three
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: that that happened, you know, on on what May twenty eighth.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: It was a Wednesday. We had just gotten swept by
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers. We lost the game three to one. Again
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: that we might have been able to win, but we didn't.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: You know, we all know the story of jor Hitop
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: that's throwing his glove into the air and just kind
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: of like having a meltdown, and uh, you know the
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: ensuing you know, words of talking about this being the
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: worst team that he's ever played on, and all that stuff, like.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: The story of of.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: The of of of a team meeting, Like team meeting
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: should happen.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: When you're at that point and you should be a better,
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: better team.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: But it's New York. You know, they they they go
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: for headlines, they go for for sexy things, and you
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: know they're there.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: We had a couple.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Of other you know, cool characters throughout the course of
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: the season. You know, we had Seymour Wiener to start
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: and it became like a dollar hot all game that
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: kind of was like almost indirectly sponsored by by him.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: You know, Max Wiener, the rally pamp, who was you know,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: still at a ton of games. But then you know
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: after that, that whole the whole team meeting, like something
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: didn't something clicked. Before Grimace even came on to the season,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: they went to London to get other They brought their
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: entire family unit to tour to London, and it wasn't
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: just the players, it was their wives, it was their
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: families and they were all breaking bread together.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: So like that trip, like being.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: In London, you know, they were there for almost a
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: good week just going around the city doing events together,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: having you know team uh team Dinners, like not just
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: the players, but the players wives and their kids and like,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: you know, you don't always get to have that even
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: during bring training because people are so busy, you know,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: maintaining their home, the kids are still in school, all
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: of that stuff. But I have a trip in the
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: summer that went there that was a huge point of
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: gallv Nation, even before grimmis.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: But Grimace is on sexy.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: You know, he's this big like you know McDonald's fun
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: character and like that that became a thing because we
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: had a we had a winning streak.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Have you got him or hawk to a girl to
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: hold the OMG sign yet or is that in the works.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: No, listen, I don't don't know the story with talk
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: to her, but you know, from from you know, I
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: think if she was meant to come back, she would
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: have been back from that situation. I think that it
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: probably was some some difficult pr that the Mets had
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: to answer to, especially when some of our radio hosts
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: were so vocal about you know, it being camp they
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: and we have talk to a girl and you know, listen,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Ellie Welch does a lot.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Of an amazing things in the community.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: That's fun of him, like she's used her platform which
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: kind of started off as like a tongue and she
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: kind of thing that was really meant for TikTok, but
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: it's not really meant for public consumption. I don't think
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: parents should have to explain what it all means and
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: all that. But that's you know, that's that's my own
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: personal opinion. So I think that was a lot of
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: the backlash that the organization probably faced publicly. Otherwise I
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: should be here, I could be throwing out a first
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: pitch already in the NLDS. But I love that she's
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: still supporting the team from Afar and over.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: We'll have to see how that goes. October, I got
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: to ask you about brandon Nimo because this guy, you know,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I was on the field with him when he was
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: coming up in twenty seventeen, and now he's going to
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: announced he's the veteran of the station and backing on
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: him for crime, and.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: How good do you I'm sorry you're breaking up.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: How good do you feel for brandon Neimo right now?
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Because he's the guy that really worked his ass off
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: to get here.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, yeah, Look, when he was drafted
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: as a as a high school player who played American
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Legion ball in Wyoming. I don't think anybody could have
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: expected him to be this kind of good the way
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: that he is right now. I mean, he's a he's
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: an All Star caliber player, and he's probably.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Should have gone also at least two times over at
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: this point.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: But you're talking about a guy who consistently, year over
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: year does something to improve his skill set. And you know,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: he didn't start off as this kind of vocal leader
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: that he is right now. He's become that person who
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: will take the heat in the locker room, will answer
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: the tough questions, who will always put his team before
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: his own individual accolades, and he does that consistently. I
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: think him and the Door have that kind of very
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: similar mindset. He've been so good for each other as
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: almost like a Batman and Robin in terms of how
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: they leave the clubhouse right. And you know, seeing him
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: just you know, having a moment with you know, with
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: his wife Chelsea on the field when when the NLCS
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: ended was was really cool because I've seen him, I've
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: seen him grow up. I've seen him grow up in
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: that's uniform, and you know, from all looks at it
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: he's going to retire here because he's not for at.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Least another four years, three four years at least that uh,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: you know, at least. But he's a great ambassador for for.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: For for the team, but also to it just shows
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: like you know what good scouting is, Like somebody saw
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: something on him and he's worked his tail off to
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: to get better and I love it, all right, No
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: one deserves it more.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about Lindor. But before we get to him,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: any plans for you with this LCS coming up? Are
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: you going to be there both games? Obviously you are,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: but are you gonna how you add to the excitement
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: of the home home coming back to the for the
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: l CS, Like, what's what's your all going to be?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Do you think to bring?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I have?
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I have tickets for all three games, so I'll be
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: there Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. And you know, there's there's
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: already signs that that the same signs that that we're
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: rolling with at the signs that we're going to stick with.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: I have that playoff version of OMG which has the
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: subway map on it, which is a out the Queens
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: And then is that really massive OMG, sign that I
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: don't know that with the crowds that we have that
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: it's the most ideal, because the last thing I want
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: to do is is it becomes a situation where people
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: can't navigate freely throughout the concourses. Okay, but it'll be,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: it'll be its presence will be felt maybe pre game.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: You know, it will be out on the Shape bridge
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: for people to take photos with. You know, these are
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: nationally televised broadcasts, so I purposely have standing room seats
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: because I want to be able to move around. So
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: maybe I'll protect it in in a way where you know,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: it could be seen even more so we could just
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: continue to tell the story of you know, what it
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: means to our team and what it means to our
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: fan base.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: And I'll probably have to have somebody with me to
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: kind of be my security.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Are you season ticket holder and not really right? You
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: kind of go by the game.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I I have gotten a lot of tickets extended to
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: me from from from different places, and I've always been, uh,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: you know, I got to see what my work schedule
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: looks like kind of guy, and you know, if I
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: have a free evening, I'm gonna go to the ballpark,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: you know, with either myself.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Or someone in my family will go to the game
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: and we'll catch a game.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: These ticket holders, if you're very you're very stuck to
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: to those and you know sometimes you're you're you're you're
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: throwing away money because you can't put the ticket or
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: you want to give somebody a ticket, and as the
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: team is struggling, you can't give tickets away fast enough, right.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: You know, I gotta say this, I just know, but
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that you're going to be there all three games.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Who who raised you to be an FM?
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Mom?
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Dad? Both sides like what what? What's the lineage of
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: j Max?
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: My dad was a was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan growing up,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: and it broke his heart that's won that the Dodgers left,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: so he became a national fans. But it was also
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: are the kind of guy that also never minded moving
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: for the Yankees. I think that early on growing up,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I have a lot of pride in coming from Cludens
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: and I've got a I've got a tattoo in my
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: arm of the Unisphere and i have a I have
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: a I have a Mets tattoo that for my son's
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: initials growing up like if I could have lived my
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: whole life, I would have just because I feel like
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: there's so much authenticity and there there's such a big
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: melting pot, like everything that I feel like I've learned
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: about life has come fun living.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: In and you know, in the environment of.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I love, I love queens, I love growing up there
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: from the age of ten onwards. So I just I
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: feel you on that one. Let's get back to baseball
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: for a second. Lindor lead off. By the way, Mendoz
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: hasn't done an incredible job his first year, but Lindor
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: at the top spot. Did you think that he was
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: going to get there and then throw in that spot?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: I felt like they were juggling up there for a
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: little while until they decided on online door.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I think that there's a there's a there's like this
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: new blueprint of success with having guys who are you know,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: I high ops, high risk reward kind of guys being
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: in your leadoff spot. And you look at a guy
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: like Kyle Schwarber, you look at the time that I
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: and Judges spent in the beat off spot, and obviously
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: now you look at you know, Francisco Indor and what
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: it's meant for the Mets, like him being in the
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: leadoff spot obviously has has has coincided with the resurgers
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: of this team, and you know, having the best Briancond
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: in baseballs in the street first, you know, very not.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: He doesn't have the same kind of power as Kyle Swarber,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: but look look at Coylee Schwarber in aladof spot what
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: it's done, like you know, led the league and leadoff
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: home runs and you know, still produced at a high clip,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Like you could still be a high RBI guy in
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: the first spot because you're only batting with nobody on
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: the first battle of the game.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Every other adapt that you have.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: You're going to probably have guys in front of you,
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: whether it's you know, you know seven eight nine, or
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: it could you know, it could be a combination of them,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: depending well.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: He went MVP. I know it's an Outlanta's question because
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: about Tani, but I just think that this guy plays
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: the field and does so much. Do you wish the
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: MVP racer is a low affair in some of in.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Some respects or what I think they have to have
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: guardrails and parameters on what an MVP season should be
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: like and it. David Ortiz, as a perfect example, had
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: several monster seasons as a DH that offensively. Wuld argue
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: that he's had better offensive years than the people who
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: he was up against, But there was always the award
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: for a guy who was a player. You know, you
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: take Windor off this team, what is this tutor? You
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: take off the Dodgers on the Dodgers, the Dodgers, and
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: there were already two other VP's on the team, right,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: you know, so it's a really tough ugn't it. You know,
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: if you're really looking at just you know, offensive numbers,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: like oh, Tommy puts on video game numbers, he's he
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: is a unicorn, but he didn't play the field. So
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: you know, co m VP maybe, you know, do you
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: you look at maybe you know, the most outstanding offensive
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: player and creating an award just for that. You know,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: it's something that I think the league should really start
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: to look at, because otherwise you can give the award
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: every year to old Tommy or you know, back in
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: the days, right, you can give the award every year
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: to my Trout. You know how many years that was
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Mike Trout not the the MVP when he could have
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: been right, it's it's it's really it's super subjective.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: And uh, you know, look, I think the award is
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: going to go to Tommy.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, it'd be hard to not do it.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: It should go to Lenore.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: But I just feel like the way that Major League
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Baseball is especially around growing it city international market, you know,
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: one of its biggest stars being in the MVP.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Only kind of heard is that.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Case of pursuing baseball and international markets.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: You know, Jay, you talk about this game as if
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: you played it before. Did you ever play?
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: I played a little bit. I mean I I I played.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: I played competitive basketball growing up, like from you know,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: seventh grade through most of high school, and my parents
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: can afford to play those. And I got my first
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: glove when I was like eleven years old. My dad
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: brought up somebody who was walking up and down Putmand
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Avenue selling drugs, so it probably came off the back
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: of a truck. And my first love was a black
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: glove that with a combination of a uh, leather and
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: nile on. I think the brand was called Region, So
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: it really wasn't even a great model glove, but I
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: remember it because it was my first glove, and you know,
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: I played with it as much as I could. I mean,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: I played some softball in the park around my way,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: but I wish I had started soon.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: I mean I could, I could catch the ball, I
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: could run really well. I understood situational hitting, but I I.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Could not throw to save my life. I mean I
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: could throw them out, but you know, back then, I
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: just throw the ball thinking I'm aiming right and it's
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: going left. And you know, like most people, you know,
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: your body hasn't developed yet. But uh, but you know,
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I spent I spent a lot of time watching baseball,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: so like, you know, you listen to enough enough broadcasts
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: you you uh, you learn more about the game, Like
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: we're so blessed with Gary Keith at Raw that you
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: know their knowledge of the game and how they imparty
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: on the fans like really kind of helps you understand
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: what's happening a lot better.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: And then Howie on radio, you nothing like it, man,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: it's just the best, the best, and and personally for you,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: what year does this remind you of? And what year?
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: I feel like everybody's excited, So I got to say,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: what was the last time you felt this excited?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Fifteen was a run but that was consessus. This feels
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: like a real team jelling here. I could be wrong
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: on that, but.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't really know that this team compares
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: to many other teams that we've had. And if you
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: were to take this team and the way that they
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: were playing, if they had done this end to end
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: from from from April, it would be a team that
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: I would compare to the eighty sixteen minus some of
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: the Shenanigans, because this team has that, you know, like
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: this this kind of like, you know, never give up,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: never quit, do or die kind of attitude. You know,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: we didn't necessarily have the whole you gotta believe story
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: of the seventy three Mets. But you know, those teams,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: I'm not.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: I don't have the same affinity because I wasn't around
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: them when they were you know, when they were playing.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: But the two thousand Mets, they were a flaw team.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: I don't like, we made it to World Series, but
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: they were a flaw team and it was going to
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: always be tough to be that Yankee team.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: That Yankee team was a powerhouse yea, and they had
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: won a couple of prior it was it was a
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: it was a lot. And I mean I was their
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: opening night, the first game, and I remember beneath you know,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Benitez always gave met fans a scare. I'll never remember
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: forget those times. But you know, now they have a clothes,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: they have a lot of pieces in place that maybe
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: they didn't have before. You just mentioned the you gotta
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: believe and now it's o MG. I mean, it's just
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: the generational type of thing, you know, all right when
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: they hold the sign, JA, when they hold the sign,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: doesn't that feel more personal? Like, Okay, they're holding it
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: because they know I made a type of thing now
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: or what does that feel like?
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: You know, when when when we clinched the other day.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Last week, it feels like the other day, but it
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: was it was last what Thursday, right Thursday night game
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: And with all the commotion of celebrating and getting the
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: large sign from center field and looking to get up
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: through to my car, I talked to somebody and I
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: was like, I really loved it to be down there, Like,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: let's take you down there. I went down there and
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I got on the field and I had about like
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: ten different conversations with players, players wise players families, and
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: they were all just so happy to take a picture
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: with the large side, but they also wanted me in
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: the picture. So you know, I had a lot of
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: gratitude come my way, a lot of thank yous, like
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: bugs gapping people up. It's just I had at this
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: really amazing comversation with Brandon Nemo because that night about it,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Like two weeks earlier, when they were on Sunday Night Baseball,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: they were talking about my sign, they were featuring it,
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: and in the midst of them talking about what happened
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: with it, how the first sign broke and the O
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: popped off. As the story is being told, Brandon Nemo
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: hits a two hits that home run, whether two run
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: home run or but the home run that they hit
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: in the bottom of the sixth inning off Zach Wheeler.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: I gave us the lead and I told him like, hey, man, like.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: You ever believe this, But they were talking about my
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: sign on ESPN, and as they were talking about the
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: first sign and how the OH popped off, you hit
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: a home run and there went my interview, and like
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: the two of us were like chuckling and laughing about it,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: and it was just such a wholesome moment to kind
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: of share that with him, because like, this isn't about notoriety,
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: This isn't about thing, this isn't about any of that.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Like I'm just having fun, and uh, if I could
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: give it to a player who you know, it's something
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: to kind of take away from that, I'm going to
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: do it and do it in a way where it's
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's positive and and what have you
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: put him and him and Drew Smith took a picture
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: with me and like I had the biggest smile on
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: my face because like they know who I am and
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: it's just.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: I don't that's that probably would have never have happened, yeah,
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: previous years or what have you.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: And you know, they know what I do, they know
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: what I make, and they also know the energy and
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: the excitement that I have. And that's why I'm on
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: the road too, because like you know, I've been fortunate,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: you know, with with with this this run of success
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: that the team has had that you know, my business
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: has been has been has been good, and I've been
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: able to make a few more bucks. You know, I
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: want to I want to invest it in the experience
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: of being around the team because you know, again, when
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: you don't get to go to the playoffs very often,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: and you feel like in some way you're now part
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: I feel like I I've you.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Know, part of me really wants to just be there
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: and see it with my own eyes and not see
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: it through a television lens or you're a you're an announcer.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: I just want to be at the ballpark and experience
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: the energy and excitement and the towels that are waiting
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: from an opposing fan base. And sure, you feel like the.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Eyes and ears a little bit of of the fan
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: base right now, you're out there on behalf of the fan.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: It sounds like there's a lot of fans that are traveling.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: But you know, I just I feel like in some ways,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: like you know, I'm watching for the sign to go up,
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: like I'm waiting for it. It's just like it's a
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: it's like a jack in the box, right, you never
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: know where we're going to go yard.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what maybe people don't realize is after
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: that and DS clincher, I believe Jose Glaciers took the
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: sign and went on the mound, showing it to the
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: whole three sixty of the stadium. I mean that moment
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: had to be special too. After they clinch, that sign
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: is now center stage and bruce Beck is on the
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: on Instagram with the sign and that I mean and
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: the work. It just feels like a small world when
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: those type of things happen. Because here I am on Instagram,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: there's Bruce Beck with a sign I tag you.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: It's like a small world.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: It's a family really.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And bruce Beck followed me after that. And I've
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: been a fan of bruce Beck's like since gosh, I
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: had to be like about ten or eleven years old,
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: watching the late broadcasts of the recaps of of of.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Sports on NBC, and yeah, it's super special, like.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: You, I could just can believe. There he is, glaciers
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: on the mound, bruce Beck standing in with the microphone. OMG.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, hey, people, let me tell you who's
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: made that sign, okay, because sometimes I feel like the
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: sign it's more not right. It's always I turned it
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: back to you because you're the guy behind it, you know.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Meanless the the the the shirt was was the shirt
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: and the song and the player and what was happening
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: with the team where we're all you know, part and
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: post parceled the you know, the driver behind it. Like
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: this year alone, I've I've made a I made a
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: tribute gift for Doc Good and I made a tribute
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: gift for Dallas Strawberry. And unless people have been following
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: my Instagram, you probably don't know that that's happened. But
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: I made them like personal baseball cards that you know
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: is a is a is an emblematic of something they've
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: done in their career, or just you know, an the
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: pose of like their eighty six card and the eighty
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: seven cards.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: So I gave them both one of those.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: I brought a four foot piece into opening day, a
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: blue and orange Big Mets piece that we brought on
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: the subway line, and we did a whole kind of
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: like you know, like walking art, and by bringing them
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: around the stadium and hyping people up what I'm doing,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not necessarily new. It just didn't cut
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: through the way that so it just became something for
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: not just one player, not to recognize one thing. It's
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: just more of like this kind of like movement, you know,
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: just thinking about the lyrics to the song and what
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: it means the Spanish translations English, It's just about you know,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: removing you know, all of the negativity and all of
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: the doubt, the things that get in the way of
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: you being successful and prosperous in life.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: By the way, before you know it, pitball beats holding
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: up your sign next. I can't wait for that to happen.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, when that happens, man, Like, I'm getting on
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: a plane in Miami and I'm gonna hang out and
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: go on to the store step with my hand out
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: and I'm kidding there.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: This has been a lot of fun, Jay, and I'm
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: hoping to see you around. We gotta get a picture
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: at some point because it's just talking so much. And
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know I'll make it the season, but hopefully
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: because to be at the clincher would be special. We'll
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: see what happens.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: But yeah, well we'll definitely, uh definitely stay stay tuned
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: into each other. And I appreciate, uh you using your
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: platform to share stories about you know, things and the
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: experiences that are happening throughout you know, our fan base
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: and obviously a lot of the.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: Work that you do is you know, it's it's incredible.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: We've gotten to know meet a lot of like really
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: cool people through through through the work that you do.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: All I do is read the paper home, and here
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: you are in the paper, and I'm like, all right,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: let me let me research, let me find out. I
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: text you. You're very You're very responsive for someone who's.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: In the newspaper.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: I'm like, Oh, this guy is you know, real on
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: the ground right.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: Here, you know type of guy.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I like that. All right, Jay, thank you so much.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: And one last thing I've got to ask you this,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: how long have you been creative?
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: How long have you been creative?
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: All My earliest memories were or we're building directors when
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, three four years old, and
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: you know, you let your imagination run wild, and you.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: Know, the creative convatue.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: When I was a kid, I used to draw comic
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: pictures of like, you know, Mickey Mouse and Wooden Woodpecker
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: and bugs Bunny and all that stuff. And I wanted
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: to go to school for it, and uh I wasn't
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: able to because I put my focus on on learning
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: how to how to run businesses. And I did that
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: for the better part of you know, twenty or so years.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: When I got out of high school and through the college,
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: heres so.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm so glad that you're in it and that
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: you did this, and we'll be in touch for sure
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: and hopefully well link up this this postseason.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, Thanks Alex having have a great night
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: and a safe flight home.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: Appreciate it. Thanks care, take care of